Garment.



W.'P. BUTUSOV.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB- 6. 1915.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

Wmzmo Mmm-Sui on@ alumnus WTLIJIAM PAUL B'UTUSOV, OF BILOXI,MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO JULIUS M. LOPEZ, 0F BILOXI,MISSISSIPPI.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

Application led February, 1915. Serial No. 6,518.

which the following is a specication, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings.

This inventionrelates to certain improvements in garments and an objectof the invention is to provide a garment having novel and improved meansw ereby the same may be inflated with convenience and facility in orderto permit the same to be employed as a life saving medium should thewearer bewithin the water. v

Furthermore, it is anobject of the invention to provide a novel andimproved garment including a double-walled compartment which, wheninated with air, serves to give the necessary buoyancy to preventsinking of the wearer; and it is also an object of the invention toprovide a novel and improved garment provided with means whereby asupply of compressed air may be conveniently carried thereby in orderthat the garment may be inflated in substantially an automatic manner.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in thecombination and arrangement of the several parts o-f my improved garmentwhereby certain important l advantages are attained and the device isrendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient andadvantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theappended claim. In orderthat my invention may be the better understood,I will now proceed to describe the-same with reference to the accom'-panying drawings, wherein-v Figure l is a view in perspective, withpartsbroken away, of a garment constructed in accordance with anembodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a viewin perspective, with thegarment open and illustrating the inner portion thereof, parts beingbroken` away to illustrate certain details of invention; and Fig. 3 isan enlarged fragmentary sectional view illustrating the garment in--Hated.

Asv disclosed in the accompanying drawings, G denotes a garment ofconventional cut and preferably formed of Water-proof material andhaving its upper portion preferably from the vwaistline to the neck bandand the sleeves s thereof, double-walled to afford a compartment wherebysuch portions of the garment may be inflated when it is desired toemploy the same as a life saving medium. The inner walls of the sleeveshave their upper or inner extremities secured directly to the inner wallof the body portion of the garment proper, as is believed to be clearlyshown in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings. The walls of thecompartment are lined with a suitable water-proof material, as indicatedat l, and such lining is preferably interposed between the outer clothofthe garment and the dress lining thereof so' that when the compartmentis deflated, the garment will giveno indication of its special use andbe manipulated in a conventional manner.

As herein embodied, the compartment c has in communication therewithadjacent the neck -band of the` garment, the air valve 2 of any ordinaryor preferred construction and having a projected extremity 8 withtheflow of the fluid through the tube is controlled by a valve 7 carriedbythe tank 5. The valve 7 may be of any desired construction and for thisreason I have illustrated in the drawings a conventional form. Inpractice, I find it-of advantage to have the portable tank 5 of acapacity whereby a single charge will serve to inflate the compartment ctwlce. f

In referring hereinbefore and in the claims to air, I wish to beunderstood as referring to gas or other fluids which may be employed toinflate my device and which possesses the requisite buoyancy.

From the foregoing description, 'it is thoughtto be obvious that agarment constructed in accordance with my invention is ,I

of an extremely simple and comparatively bled, and it will also beobvious that my in- A vention is susceptible .of somefchange andmodification without material departure from the principles and vspiritthereof and parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice.

I claim: y Y

.As a new article of manufacture, a garment including sleeves havingtheir outer ends'open, said garment from the waist-line to the neck andthe sleeves being doublewalled to afford a single compartment, the innerwalls of the sleeves having their inner 'extremities secured directly tothe inner walll of the body portion ofthe garment, a lining' ofimpervious material for the compartv1 ment, a sourceJ of. compressed aircarried by In testimony whereof I hereunto aliX- my;

signature in the presence of two witnesses. WILLIAM PAUL BUTUSOV. lWitnesses: l e

J. M. LOPEZ,

R. E. SHAY.'

